Accounts and acknowledgements
If you no longer require your UCT HPC account, or if you have recently submitted a thesis or paper acknowledging usage of the cluster, please let us know.
Core reservations
When requesting resources please do not oversubscribe your jobs. Requesting 40 cores for a job when your code can only address 1 or 2 cores prohibits other researchers from using these valuable resources.
New Hardware
The old HPC cluster has now been decommissioned and the remainder of its worker nodes are being transferred to hex. We will also shortly be adding another tranche of new compute nodes and GPU cards.
Increased resources
We have increased the WallTime and MaxCores for all postgrad accounts. The current values have been increased from 170 hours and 120 cores to 200 hours and 160 cores respectively. Once the new tranche of compute nodes are installed these values may be raised further.
Scratch storage
We have updated our Scratch Storage Policy. Please also note that the /scratch file system is not backed up at all, nor is it meant for long term storage.
Training courses
We are looking at running several introductory training courses in the next few months. If you are interested in attending please let us know.